Near Brushy Slope camp on the western side of Brock Mountain (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Shasta County, California (40.8° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 50.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hosselkus Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Hosselkus Limestone

•THe basal layer of the upper of massive grey horizon of the limestone

Environment/lithology: massive limestone

• The basal layer of the upper of massive grey horizon of the limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by University of California in 1906

Primary reference: J. C. Merriam. 1906. Notes on the osteology of the thalattosaurian genus Nectosaurus. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(13):217-223 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152274: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Thalattosauria -
Nectosaurus sp.
Nectosaurus sp. Merriam 1905 diapsid
A few scattered bones